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Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2017 7:04 am
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It would have been difficult enough for Theo to ignore a wild animal insistently scratching at his front door on a normal day, but when that animal kept trying to show him a live feed of itself scratching at his front door, it was near impossible.
He eventually stormed outside out of necessity, figuring that the farther he got from the creature the more difficult it would be for it to do... whatever it was doing, but when he realized it was following, it was hard not to feel bad. The thing was just so eager. If it got hit by a car or something trying to keep pace, well, that would be kind of ******** up, especially if it decided to show him that s**t in first person too.
So that was how Theodore Penny ended up walking past The 4th Wall with a curious, shiny-eyed skunk waddling a fair distance behind him. It was a new, bouncy skunk, and it didn't smell at all unless you got really, really close.
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Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2017 11:45 am
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He'd visited the 4th Wall not because he was a lover of comics or D&D (he'd dabbled in both), but because he loved dice. Especially really pretty dice. But Horace limited himself on dice purchases, because otherwise things would get Out of Hand. Reluctantly, he let the door swing shut behind him and stepped out onto the sidewalk.
Horace found himself falling in step behind well behind a young man with longish hair. And, he noticed at he walked. this man had a tail. Not a literal tail, not like Oliver, but unless his eyes were worse than he thought, there was a skunk. And it was following. He frowned, quickening his pace to catch up to the man.
"Hey, this may be really, ridiculously weird, but... I think you're being followed." Nugget shifted from his cozy nest in Horace's jacket pocket.
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Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2017 9:48 am
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"I checked Nugget for rabies, if that's what you're asking." Horace looked at Theo, one brow raised. "A bat, cool with being in my house, non-aggressive to me - yeah, I'm gonna ask 'what the ********'." He, too, glanced back at the skunk.
"Oh, you mean Nasir? With Trouble? He's a cool guy." Nugget was redeposited in Horace's pocket. "He's a sleepy magic bat. Why don't you give the skunk a chance? If he's magic and into you, he won't spray you.... I hope."
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Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2017 3:18 pm
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"I didn't mean... Sorry." Of course he would have checked for things like that. This guy didn't look insane, or well, he did a little, but not that sort of insane. Definitely not the 'I want to die rabid' type.
"Nasir's too nice for his own good." Theo laughed through his nose. "I didn't mean that like it sounded either. I'm starting to think he put ideas in my head though." Reluctantly, he bent over a little, waving the skunk forward. It obliged immediately, bouncing over and sitting within kicking distance. Close, but not close close. He wouldn't have admitted it out loud, but Theo was pretty sure his headache was getting better already. Great.
"So. Nugget, huh?" He might have invited the skunk to sit nearby, but he didn't think he was ready for names. "Do you have a bat door or something or does he stay with you all the time?"
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Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2017 11:41 am
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Horace was so sincere, with his reaching and sharing and opening doors, that it pulled at Theo's guilt. He looked at the skunk again as it scooted out of the way of foot traffic and closer to their bench, and for once he didn't actively try to deny it might be connected to him somehow. He felt nothing at the moment, however, except a slightly lighter conscience.
He watched. From the outside, the whole process didn't look like much at all. And then a bat flew at his face. Theo's laugh was rusty, more startled than amused, at least at first, though he kept smiling as he held his hands out to catch the bat if it passed out mid-flight.
"Well, don't hurt him or anything."
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